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Triobol
| Issuer | Kleitor (Arkadia) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 260 BC |
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| Weight | 2.78 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing radiate head of Helios, depicted with curly hair and an aureole of sun rays radiating outward from the crown, rendered in fine archaic-to-early-classical Greek style. The god's features are centrally composed, with almond-shaped eyes, a broad nose, and slightly parted lips, conveying a serene frontal majesty characteristic of Arkadian coinage of this period. The circular flan allows the radiating crown to nearly fill the field to the coin's edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kleitor was a minor Arkadian polis in the upper Aroanian valley, politically absorbed into the Achaean League by the mid-third century BC. This triobol almost certainly belongs to the transitional decades just before that incorporation, when Kleitor retained enough autonomy to strike its own silver — a privilege that effectively ended once League coinage standardized the region's currency.